Friday, August 23, 2019

The
3-Day Professional Training Workshop for 31 of journalism studies Students from
Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
and other universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and Islamabad concluded.

The workshop was
organized by Pakistan Peace Collective (PPC), a research & communication
project of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (M/O, I&B). It may
be recalled that project works on the peace-building campaigns to counter the
trends of violent extremism in Pakistan and simultaneously organised training
workshops on capacity building of media students for developing creative media
content.

Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan,
Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting, attended
the concluding session of the training workshop. While addressing the
participants, she emphasized upon the need for peace and harmony in society to
achieve a higher benchmark of progress and development. She advised the
participants to strive for achieving the higher objectives of life and play
their due role in this regard, when they enter into practical life. She later
distributed certificates among the participants of the workshop.

Mian Shabbir Anwer,
CEO PPC, while welcoming the chief guest lauded her keen interest in various
activities of the project (PPC). He also appreciated the support extended by
the faculties of the universities in selection and nomination of students for
the said training. He expressed confidence that the participants would utilize
the lessons learnt during the training workshop and contribute towards the
peace building efforts as responsible communicators particularly while covering
issues of violent extremism.

The training workshop
unwrapped two days earlier with a session on the Narratives, Impact &
Critical Analysis of Violent Extremism in Pakistan, delivered by Mr. Khursheed
Nadeem, a religious scholar. For the session based on Paigham e Pakistan, Dr
Aftab Ahmed Sangra delivered his views. Dr Aftab is Head of Department,
Comparative Studies of World Religions and Secretary, Council of Islamic
Research Institute.\

Paigham e Pakistan, he
said, is a social contract validated by all the political parties as well as
ulema and masha’ikh of all schools of thoughts. Students were also given a
chance to interact with the resilient and brave citizen of Pakistan; Mr. Inayat
Ullah Khan Incharge Bomb Disposal Unit D.I. Khan KPK Police; he narrated his own
real time experiences in combating terrorist activities in Pakistan.

Other sessions of
training workshop included Media’s role in Countering Violent Extremism (CVE),
the social and psychological impact of Conflict Reporting in Pakistan as well
as Critical Thinking: while Communicating on Conflict in Pakistan. The training
ended with course modules of Video Production Techniques included research
scripting, interview and camera techniques, grammar of sound, lightning and
editing. In the practical exercises, participants also produced media products
through smartphones based on the training themes.

Kamran Butt from
National College of Arts Lahore, Tahir Imran Mian from BBC, Usman Zafar and
Faizan Gul from PPC also delivered their respective lectures during the
training. The participants attending the training workshop belonged to various
universities from provinces of KPK, GB and federal capital.

The cities from
where from students participated included Dera Ismail Khan, Mardan, Malakand,
Peshawar, Hazara, Gilgit and Islamabad. Pakistan Peace Collective will soon be
organizing similar one-cluster training workshop next week for media students
from ten (10) more universities of Sindh and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan.

Dr. Nasrullah Shah, Associate Professor of
Chemistry, has been selected as a Principal Candidate for a Fulbright Scholar
Award for 2019-2020, for one year fellowship in the United States. Fulbright
Fellowship is the flagship and one of the most prestigious scholarship programs
in Pakistan as well as on international level. The selection is made by The
United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) and J. William
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB) U.S.

It is worth mentioning that Dr. Shah competed
with hundreds of faculty members from all over Pakistan, and in fact, the very
first Fulbright selectee from AWKUM since its establishment. Dr. Shah’s
selection under this program is indeed an honor for our university, since a
very small ratio of faculty members are selected under this program. Hence,
besides establishing good name and reputation of AWKUM, it will certainly bring
new skills to our research by establishing collaboration between our university
and one of the universities in the U.S.

Dr. Tahir Usman,
Assistant Professor, College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, AWKUM
has been awarded with a very competitive joint project of Pakistan Science
Foundation and Nature Sciences Foundation of China with title “Inter-generational
epigenetic transmission of staphyiococcusaureus mastitis and functional
validation of resistance genes in China & Pakistan dairy cattle”.

Only nine
projects are awarded all over Pakistan and just one from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
that is of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan”.

Abdul
Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM), established in 2009, is imparting Quality
Education through 35 disciplines of Arts and Humanities, Social, Basic and
Applied Sciences at Undergraduate, Graduate and Postgraduate levels. This is
evident from its four campuses;

1.Garden
Campus, Mardan

2.Main
Campus, Mardan

3.Shaheed
Rashid Hussain Campus Pabbi, Nowshera

4. Abdul
Wali Khan University Timergara Campus

The
following Teaching Institute/Departments are duly accredited by the relevant
National Accreditation Councils of Pakistan.

1.Institute
of Business Studies & Leadership

2.Department
of Computer Science

3.Department
of Education

4.Department
of Agriculture

5.Department
of Pharmacy (Permitted by Pharmacy Council of Pakistan)

6.Department
of Law (Permitted by Pakistan Bar Council)

Presently,
around 12000 students are enrolled in various programs. AWKUM has around 400
highly qualified faculty members, among which more than 250 are Ph.D. from
various technologically advanced countries. AWKUM is ranked the 2nd best
University of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by Higher Education Commissions (HEC). Hence,
it is the fastest growing public-sector university in the Country.

The
Garden Campus of the university is spread over on more than 2000 Kanals of land
having state of the art infrastructure, well equipped laboratories, computer
labs, three hostels with the capacity of 1500 students, two on campus colleges,
sports complex and many other facilities.

HOSTEL FACILITY:

AWKUM
provides hostel facility to both girls and boys in the following campuses:

Boys: Hostel facility is available for
boys at Garden and Timergara Campuses.

Girls: Hostel facility is available for
girls at the Main Campus Mardan.

TRANSPORT FACILITY:

AWKUM
has one of the best transport fleet for pick and drop facilities for students
and staff at all Campuses in Mardan. This facility is available for all the
major and small towns including Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshera, Risalpur, Swabi,
Nawi Kali, Toru, Mayar, Ghari Kapoora, Bakhshali, Gujrat, Gaddar, Sawal Dher,
Katlang, Lund Khwar, Mian Khan, Takht Bhai, Fazli Abad, Sher Garh and Manga.

In
Shaheed Rashid Hussain Campus Pabbi pick and drop facility is available for
Peshawar, Jehangira, Nowshera, Akora Khattak and Mardan.

In
Timargara Campus pick and drop facility is available for Timargara, Sarai,
Nasafa, Ouch and Gul Abad.

STUDENTS FINANCIAL AID PROGRAMS:

AWKUM
has a comprehensive scholarship program for providing financial assistance to
meritorious and financially constrained students. The details of some important
scholarships are as under:

a.AWKUM,
University Own Source (Fund) Scholarships:

University
Own Source Scholarship program has been providing need-based scholarships to
Undergraduate and Graduate students since February 2010.

b.Scholarships
for Position Holders:

University
offers merit scholarships for position holders.

c.HEC
Need Based Scholarships:

Higher
Education Commission offers HEC Need Based Scholarships to deserving students
for the entire four years of Undergraduate Program.

d.MORA
Scholarships:

These
scholarships are provided to needy and poor students of AWKUM from Zakat Funds
by Ministry of Religious Affairs through District Zakat and Usher Offices.

Government
of Pakistan offers these scholarships to students from Gilgit-Baltistan,
Chitral, Shangla, Buner, Swat, Dir Upper, Dir Lower, Malakand, Kohistan and
FATA region studying at AWKUM. The program covers tuition fee for the entire
academic program at Graduate and Postgraduate levels.

f.Minority
Scholarships:

These
scholarships aim to support the minority students with highest academic
potential and strong motivation to bring progress to their families and
communities.

g.Siblings
Fee Concession Scholarships:

If
more than one brother/sister is enrolled, the younger brother/sister will get
half fee concession. The concession granted shall only be in tuition fee.

h.Scholarship
for Disable Students:

For
those students who have sever disability will be given 100% concession in
tuition fee.

i.Scholarship
for Children of Martyr (SHUHADA Policy)

Any
person working under any government organization who lost their lives during
service terrorism, their children will be given full fee concession in terms of
education, transport and hostel from AWKUM.

j.National
Bank of Pakistan Student Loan Scheme:

Financial
Assistance is extended by providing interest free loans to the needy students
who are financially constrained in their pursuit of Higher Education. The
Graduate and Postgraduate students can benefit from this scheme.

3.Applicants
are required to submit Rs. 1000/- for MS/ MPhil and Rs. 1500/- for PhD through
a Bank Draft in favor of Treasurer, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
or by online transfer to UBL AWKUM Garden Campus, A/C. No. 027388300322.

4.Applicants
desiring to apply for more than one disciplines, and campuses are required to
submit separate fee for each discipline/campus in the same manner.